Final Fantasy: A Guide To Ivalice's Timeline

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The Ivalice Alliance games are a series of Final Fantasy games that all share a setting: Ivalice. For a lot of time, it was thought that the games simply shared Ivalice as a setting name and some recurring gameplay elements - such as races and terms.

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As more games got released, however, it became more apparent that there was some consistency to the lore and that a timeline could be constructed, linking the games together. It should be stated that this article uses information from the games to create a theory, and while we think this is a compelling timeline, it may be considered non-canonical.

In terms of the Ivalice Alliance of games, there are three distinct ages:

It should be noted that the protagonist of FFTA2 finds his roots in the Second Modernity, but his story takes place in the First Modernity after he travels through time.

The Final Fantasy 14 raid series "Return to Ivalice" shares a lot of lore with the Ivalice Alliance games, but would not fit into this timeline. It features Fran, a character from Final Fantasy 12, and tells the story of Final Fantasy Tactics - a game that occurs later in the timeline. The raid series can safely be considered an homage, not a new entry in the history of Ivalice.

We start this story, as many do, with the gods. In Ivalice, they are meddlesome, bothersome, and known as the Occuria or the Undying. They act as distant manipulators, playing with the lives of those living in Ivalice as they please and possibly being responsible for their creation, along with the creation of all life. This life would include the Espers, immensely powerful beings associated with the zodiac.

Led by Ultima, the High Seraph, 12 Espers known as the scions